From the Premier League website
"Brighton new boy Milner equals Premier League record"
Boy??
""By starting Brighton & Hove Albion’s opening match of the season at home to Luton Town, James Milner has equalled a Premier League record.
The 37-year-old, who joined Brighton from Liverpool on a...
As of 29 May 2023, from Oddschecker
Winner: 80/1
Top 4 Finish: 5/1
Top 6 Finish: 6/5 (Corals & Ladbrokes only)
Top Half Finish: 1/4 (Bet365 & William Hill only)
Bottom Half Finish: 11/4 (Bet365 & William Hill only)
Relegation: 50/1
It will be interesting to revisit this on 19 May 2024....
Results from 21 November 1970
FA Cup First Round
Torquay United 3-1 Aston Villa
Colchester United 3-0 Ringmer, yes Ringmer
Ringmer claimed to be the first "village" club to reach the First Round Proper of the FA Cup
Oh yes and
Albion 4-0 Cheltenham Town
The noticeboard shows just how much the good denizens of Falmer care about their village. The ivy creeps ever further over the poor neglected thing, and the snails have gradually munched their way through the drawing in the top left corner showing the plan for the Community Stadium...
They...
Lewes District Council taxpayers and voters, these wonderful but now sadly derelict and dilapidated garages on the Brighton University site are what your Lib Dem Councillors and Norman Baker are fighting to keep!
Cllr David Neighbour mentioned in his TV interview with Lord B that there were...
How many more points are we and our rivals going to get this season?
Based on a strict mathematical formula that says any home team will beat any teams below it in the table and the next four teams above it, and that it will draw with the next eight above it, and lose to the rest, and working...
... we've
a) conceded fewer away goals than Sheffield United
b) lost fewer away games than Sheffield United
c) scored more home goals than Wolves or Southampton or QPR or Ipswich
d) won more home games than Preston or Millwall
e) scored the same number of away goals as Leeds
f) scored more...
... with Bet365
Not a mention of Leon.....
Dean Ashton favourite at 9/2 and that unmentionable oik from SE25 is 5/1.
The bad news is that every other team including Crewe have at least one and usually two better favoured to be the leading goalscorer than CKR.
Oh, and we're 11/8 joint...
Sublime dialogue from the Chat Room during the Ipswich game:
Cue various on the abysmal lack of service provided by Premium TV and NTL
Lord Cornwallis: NTL are a load of cock in my book
Various: You have a Book of Cocks, Lord C?
Butters_____!______Buttocks: Fly Fishing by J R Hartley...
.... turned you from being a casual, go along with my Dad on the odd occasion type of supporter, into a die hard who would bleed blue and white stripes?
Exchanging some words with Royal Ali on a different thread reminded me of mine.
It was the long snowbound winter of 1962/3 and Albion were...
.... would probably just about be enough to avoid relegation from where we are now. 32 points would give us 51 in total which would have guaranteed safety in 7 of the last 9 seasons in the Championship / Division 1.
So where do they come from?
Looking at the remaining fixtures, at the very...
Bet365 have us at 50/1 to win the thing outright :p
Only Gillingham, Rotherham, and Crewe have longer odds at 100/1...
Finish fourth from bottom. Suits me :ascarf:
Will someone with a spare ticket please sort out one for our friend in Cardiff - go to the Ticket Forum and respond to his message there.
Of all the rival posters on here LB has shone as a beacon of sanity over the last few years, and has remained dedicated to our cause even though we're not in...
Albion to change their name
Just found this on the official site;
“The Club is pleased to announce that with effect from 1st June 2004 they will be known as
“Hove and Brighton Albion FC”.
The change is necessary to meet recent local government legislation introduced to accord equal naming...